September 07, 2017

"Parched - Global Water Wars" - A National Geographic documentary now dubbed by RTHK in Cantonese

At the invitation of National Geographic TV, I gave a two-hour recorded interview at the Robert Bosch Stiftung Building in Berlin on 23 May, 2016. The topic was looming water conflicts between China and India, which shares the waters from the Tibetan Plateau. My interview was to be used, together with other interviews and filming on location, for a four-part National Geographic TV documentaryGlobal Water Wars, to be released worldwide in spring, 2017.

The film, named "Parched - Global Water Wars" was aired by National Geographic on 4 April, 2017 across the United States, with over 86 million paid household subscribers. The film addresses water as an increasingly hotly-contested scare resource with geopolitical and humanitarian consequences. Illustrations featured in the documentary are (a) Syria involving the ISIS, (b) the West Bank involving Israel and the Palestinians (c) the Tibetan Plateau involving China and India. I appeared briefly in the last eighth of the film, on the Tibetan Plateau.

The documentary has now been dubbed in Cantonese and aired as part of a Radio Television Hong Kong's series 危機潛藏世界搶水大戰(6 September 2016). (Scroll forward the time counter to 42:00 to view my appearances).